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megafaunas

megafaunas is the plural of megafauna.

Meaning of megafauna

Noun

megafauna (plural megafaunas or megafauna)

  1. The large animals of a given region or time, considered as a group.
    • The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna had ended there long before it had in Europe, and so a "broad spectrum" of food collecting had been going on for some time.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 131
  2. A treatise on such a group of large animals.

Questions about megafaunas

What is megafaunas the plural of?
Megafaunas is the plural of megafauna.

Words near megafaunas in the dictionary

  1. megafarads
  2. megafarm
  3. megafarms
  4. megafauna
  5. megafaunal
  6. megafaunas
  7. megafeet
  8. megafelid
  9. megafelids
  10. megafestival
  11. megafestivals

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